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Thought of the Day: How do YOU pronounce 0x10c?

So Notch (best known for designing and writing Minecraft) has released some information about the next game he plans to create. It’s to be a sandbox space exploration/ trading/ coding game called 0x10^c. I would normally pronounce this “hex sixteen c” except I’m not really sure what the c stands for.

I never thought the day would come when I’d be geeking out this badly for the chance to virtually program a 16-bit CPU inside a game. And you actually get to program it in its own assembler (*geek heaven*). I actually once had a job where they paid me to write production assembler, and I thought those skills would never be useful again! But now, clearly, it was all worthwhile! He’s even put in op codes for multiply and divide, the big wuss. (Real coders do it all with bit shifts.)

Read the design document for the virtual CPU in 0x10c and weep And then, in a modern world where kids don’t really get taught to program in schools, imagine the potential of a setting where being able to code a simulated CPU is presented as part of a PvP game.

I’d probably ignore the C and just call the game “Sixteen”. I caught the fact that the name is just shorthand for the number of years the error caused people to be asleep pretty quick. I like 16 since the game is based around having a 16bit CPU you control.

Assembler? In a game? Yay! I haven’t coded assembler since like 15 years ago. (And found out a few years ago that students in my old university are still recycling code of an exercise only a few years ago. Seems like not many still bother to actually code stuff to be allowed to take the exam… )

So, bring it on! This is the game where we old ones hold the absolute high ground! 😀

I have to disagree. 0x is not a hex number by itself. It is used to represent a hexidecimal number such as 0xDF8A, meaning DF8A is to be interpreted as a hexidecimal number. And clearly 10^c is not a hex number as they never represent powers.

And they used the small case c instead of a large case which usually implies a constant.

And ‘x’ is used very often to represent multiplication. Hence my conslusion is 0 times 10 to the power of the speed of light which equals zero.

“It’s now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD”, which is 1988 (the Launch year) + a trillek in Base 10.

So yes, it’s actually just a number, 0x10^c. You can use exponents in Base 16, just like you can in Base 10, and if you’re going to have the base be in Base 16, you certainly better ensure your power is also Base 16. Mixing Bases in a single equation is highly confusing in mathematical notation.

So yeah, definitely not the Speed of Light, so I agree that it’s a number and not a constant.

I pronounce it ‘That game Notch is making that’s like that game that was like Elite. Federation of Free Traders, I think. That might be it. Yes. If it has procedual generation, it’s going to be a lot like Federation of Free Traders’

I’ll be pronouncing Notch’s new game 0x10^c…. “Steve.” It’s simple, concise, and gets straight to the point. When I play it, I’ll be “Steven it up” and if I’m pining for it, I can just say, “Man, I miss Steve.”